The Reason for God
"Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts - not only their own but their friends' and neighbors'. It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them....
But even as believers should learn to look for reasons behind their faith, skeptics must learn to look for a type of faith hidden within their reasoning. All doubts, however skeptical and cynical they may seem, are really a set of alternate beliefs. You cannot doubt Belief A except from a position of faith in Belief B. For example, if you doubt Christianity because 'There can't be just one true religion,' you must recognize that this statement is itself an act of faith. No one can prove it empirically, and it is not a universal truth that everyone accepts. If you went to the Middle East and said, 'There can't be just one true religion,' nearly everyone would say, 'Why not?' The reason you doubt Christianity's Belief A is because you hold unprovable Belief B. Every doubt, therefore, is based on a leap of faith" (Tim Keller, The Reason for God, p. xvii).
Why Do You Think Christianity Is True?
John Piper was recently asked, "Why do you think Christianity is true?" Here's a key part of his response: How do you, when you want to decide if someone's testimony or witness is true? You weren't there. There were no...
Idols of the Heart
A few excerpts from the "Introduction" of Tim Keller's book Counterfeit Gods:"A counterfeit god is anything so central and essential to your life that, should you lose it, your life would feel hardly worth living.""But counterfeit gods always disappoint, and...
What the Bible Says About Jesus Is Reliable
Dr. William Lane Craig, in The Evidence for Jesus, looks at the example of Luke to argue for the historical credibility of the gospel accounts of Jesus: Luke was the author of a two-part work: the Gospel of Luke and...